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	Aboard, almost all of life is spent in '''recreations''': virtual experiences run by the ship's AI, [[Omega]]. People wake in turns for the vigil shifts, eat, meet in person, and go back. The crew is divided into three groups, the [[Engineers\|engineers]], [[Researchers\|researchers]] and [[Guardians\|guardians]], which Omega keeps in competition even in its games. How the ship's people live is told on [[Descent/The ship's society\|The ship's society]].		Aboard, almost all of life is spent in '''recreations''': virtual experiences run by the ship's AI, [[Omega]]. People wake in turns for the vigil shifts, eat, meet in person, and go back. The crew is divided into three groups, the [[Engineers\|engineers]], [[Researchers\|researchers]] and [[Guardians\|guardians]], which Omega keeps in competition even in its games. How the ship's people live is told on [[Descent/The ship's society\|The ship's society]].

	[[Kurt]] is an engineer, a pattern analyst, who ~~suspects~~ that ~~arriving on~~ a real planet ~~will change nothing, and is not sure he wants it to. His friend [[Raina]], a therapist, half believes that their whole reality is itself a recreation. The book opens three cycles before the arrival~~.		The story of the book is viewed from [[Kurt]]'s perspective, an engineer. He is a pattern analyst who has doubts about that will happen when such a society arrives to the real planet.

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Descent: hub, reading pages, glossary and lore from the book

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:The story (Descent)}}''[[Descent|Descent]]''

The Pioneers mission is the third ship sent from Earth to expand humanity to the stars: about one million volunteers, mostly born in transit, nearing the end of their voyage to '''[[Calima]]''', a habitable satellite of the planet [[Rubra Fulgur I]], which orbits the red dwarf [[Rubra Fulgur]]. Calima is named for the permanent fog that caps visibility at a few dozen metres.

Aboard, almost all of life is spent in '''recreations''': virtual experiences run by the ship's AI, [[Omega]]. People wake in turns for the vigil shifts, eat, meet in person, and go back. The crew is divided into three groups, the [[Engineers|engineers]], [[Researchers|researchers]] and [[Guardians|guardians]], which Omega keeps in competition even in its games. How the ship's people live is told on [[Descent/The ship's society|The ship's society]].

[[Kurt]] is an engineer, a pattern analyst, who suspects that arriving on a real planet will change nothing, and is not sure he wants it to. His friend [[Raina]], a therapist, half believes that their whole reality is itself a recreation. The book opens three cycles before the arrival.

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The ship does not arrive as planned. The title is literal: the descent to the surface ends Part 1, and the free edition stops there.

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